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@@ -4,6 +4,46 @@ are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright notice and this notice are preserved. +Changes from 4.1.1 to 4.2.0 +--------------------------- + +1. If not in POSIX mode, changes to ENVIRON are reflected into + gawk's environment, affecting any programs run by system() + or for piped redirections. + +2. The series of numbers returned by rand() should now be "more + random" than previously. Gawk's rand() remains repeatable; you will + get the same series of numbers each time you call rand() repeatedly, + but this will be a different series than previously. + +Changes from 4.1.0 to 4.1.1 +--------------------------- + +1. The "stat" extension now includes a "devbsize" element which indicates + the units for the "nblocks" element + +2. The extension facility works on MinGW. Many of the extensions can be + built and used directly. + +3. A number of bugs in the pretty-printing / profiling code have been fixed. + +4. Sockets and two-way pipes now work under MinGW. + +5. The debugger now lists source code correctly under Cygwin. + +6. Configuration and building Mac OS X libreadline should work now. + +7. The -O option now works again. + +8. The --include option, documented since 4.0, now actually works. + +9. Infrastructure updated to automake 1.13.4 and libtool 2.4.2.418. + +10. The configure script now accepts a --disable-extensions option, +which disables checking for and building the extensions. + +XXX. A number of bugs have been fixed. See the ChangeLog. + Changes from 4.0.2 to 4.1.0 --------------------------- |